NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
The most powerful card that fits in a normal PC.
What these numbers mean — and when they matter
Built on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture with 21,760 CUDA cores. This is the card gamers and hobbyists fight over — and the honest truth is that for the big open models in this store, one of these is a starting point for experiments, not a production machine.
- GPU memory: 32 GB GDDR7
- The model must fit here, not in regular RAM. GDDR7 is fast graphics memory, but 32 GB holds only a small model — the big ones in our advisor need hundreds of gigabytes.
- Power draw: 575 W
- About half of what an average home draws around the clock (1,200 W). Your wall socket can handle one of these; your electricity bill will notice it.
- Interconnect: PCIe 5.0 only — no NVLink
- This card cannot be wired directly to another card. Two 5090s in one PC talk through the motherboard, which is far too slow to act as one big GPU.
575 W — about 48% of what an average home draws around the clock, and a day of running it uses about 15% of a 90 kWh electric-car battery.